IDEA 8.1 update: All is forgiven

March 24th, 2009

Ok, after disabling/reenambling plugins and all the usual IDE troubleshooting BS tasks. I reallized the problem was with parsing my maven pom.xml file. Still not sure what caused it, but openining the IDEA specific .ipr file fixed the issue and the maven project opened correctly.

Scratches head but grateful

GJ

Netbeans: Keep it on the Down Load

March 23rd, 2009

NB splash image

I love the fact that in the past 2 years, Netbeans have been the “most improved IDE” in the dwindling Java IDE market. Having said that, it’s also a minor annoyance to keep downlaoding the next stable release constantly. It seems like there is a new “release” every 10 days. I barely had a chance to take the wrapper off of 6.5 and now I see 6.5.1 is available. Jeeze. I’ll give them credit for having the sexiest splash startup though.

Stabbed by IDEA, hugged by Maven

March 23rd, 2009

Famous last words I posted on twitter today, “been (surprisingly?) productive today. I’m going to finish ahead of schedule ” No sooner did I say that when Jetbrain’s IDEA started to flake on me (see above). At first I thought it was a disk issue (logs pointed to the vfs) , so I wasted an hour or 2 going down that path. Disk is fine OSX disc permissions are fine…etc. I’m looking at other possibilities but I do know that I don’t have to stop development since this a maven project that lives in our subversion repositoriy. This is the point where all the whining and  b**tching about doing things The Maven Way is silenced in favor of the pure joy of using a “standard” project structure . Both IDEA (as of 8.x)  and NetBeans can open Maven Projects as IDE projects with all the classpath info intact. So as I wait for the Netbeans 6.5.1 to download I know that I should be ok to pick up where I left off. If this had been in some IDE specific  project structure, this would have been a real pain in my@$$.

Peace,

GJ

DevNexus 2009: If you weren’t there, you missed a good one

March 10th, 2009

Attended DevNexus 2009 in Atlanta last tuesday and wednesday and it was great. Neal Ford lit the place up in his keynote and his TDD session. Definitely one of the best bang for your buck in terms of software conferences. Most of which have not figured out there is a recession going on. At 185.00 , even a street programmer like me could attend. The Atlanta Java Users Group did a great job in setting this up.

Groovy, Grails will keep existing licenses

November 12th, 2008

From the man ( Guillaume Laforge) himself:

As I said on my blog, and as is said on the FAQ, the license of Groovy
will stay Apache 2.
No worries to have there.

To make a parallel, it’s not because SpringSource acquired Covalent
(the main Tomcat committers) that they made Tomcat change its license.
Same goes with Groovy: Groovy will stick to ASL 2.

I’ve had it!

August 21st, 2008

… with the fakers , the wannabe players, the non-shot callers and the never-will-be ballers. Mofos talking about the the end of Java need to sit they butt down and just listen. Java is not the best programming language out here but it’s still better than yours.  I know I been away for way too long and nobody except the Java Posse, no one seems to be holding up  the f**king J banner.  Well I’m back now. Haters, weep.

GJ

Apple releases another Java 6 update

April 30th, 2008

If you got the bling OS(X) and it’s 64 bit come get some.

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Google App Engine is cool but wake me when it’s Java

April 10th, 2008

Hey,

I love the concept. Seems a lot simpler than Amazon EMC2, which I am still having difficulty grokking. But for now only Python is supported, which seems … different. I’d love to see Java running on that bad boy. If you guys are of the same opnion, let your voice be heard: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/list

Peace,

GJ

Kinda Hot: Grails.org gets a facelift

March 21st, 2008

Newgrailssite

A good sign of a health of a project is a good infusion of hard cash. And nothing shows off money like a sexy web site redesign. The new site looks badass. I also love the new tag line “Grails - The search is over” Yeah! I got let you guys know what I’ve been doing in Grails lately, some cool things with Google Maps API. I feel really good about the prospect for today’s street programmer. So many good choices out there. We’ll talk.
Peace
GJ

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Flex is in my OSX Dock

March 11th, 2008

Flex doc icon

It’s in my doc. But I’m scared to try it. Pretty though, very pretty.